The Rose
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The Rose
Product Details
Author: Ariana Reines
ISBN: 9781837311736
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publish date: 2 April 2026
Pages: 96
Language: English
Subjects: Poetry, American, LGBTQ, Subjects & Themes, Love & Erotica, Women Authors
Fury is very lustful
A body concealing its heart's desire
Has a certain texture
A tang or an edge if you will
That the openhearted cannot match
& when exactly does the deceitful
Heart open? At climax.
--from 'The Hanged Man'
In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender.
Drawing on the history of 'romance' as the troubadours knew it and the titular flower's ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, The Rose plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: 'I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind.' In these poems, inherited ideologies of gender performance are replaced with bold vulnerability: paradoxes of power and surrender transmute the speaker's understanding of suffering, desire, and the soul.
The voice in The Rose is wry and bare, approaching the connection between erotic love and spirituality with humour. Investigating war, maternity, violent sensuality, and the role of language in magical acts, award-winning poet Ariana Reines is unafraid to uncover the 'secret / & terrible shovelings / Of love,' and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.
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